1. Cyber Bullying
By
Abhishek Desai
DIGICorp Information Systems

2. What is it?
 "Cyberbullying involves the use of information
and communication technologies such as e-
mail, cell phone and pager text messages,
instant messaging, defamatory personal Web
sites, and defamatory online personal polling
Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated,
and hostile behaviour by an individual or
group, that is intended to harm others." - Bill
Belsey

3. What forms does cyber
bullying take?
 Email
 SMS
 MMS
 IM (Instant Messaging)
 Blogs
 Personal websites
 Personal polling sites

4. Cyber bullying and Law
 Cyber bullying is a CRIMINAL ACT
 It is a CRIME to communicate repeatedly with
someone if it causes them to fear for their own
safety or safety of others
 It is also a crime to publish “defamatory libel” –
writing something which is intended to insult
someone
 It violates the human rights act.
 Personally I believe it is an act of “COWARDICE”

5. What can be done?
 Awareness and education
 www.cyberbullying.ca
 You should never send message to others
when you are angry
 You should never open a message from
someone you don’t know

6. What can be done? Contd ..
 If you encounter something on internet which
doesn’t feel right don’t open it
 You don’t have to be always on the internet
 Schools should update the Internet and
computer access policies as soon as possible

7. If you are a victim…
 DO NOT keep it to yourself, You are not
ALONE.
 Inform an ADULT you know and trust.
 Inform you Internet Service Provider or
Mobile service provider
 Inform your LOCAL POLICE
 Do not reply to message from cyber bullies
 Do not erase or delete the message from
cyber bullies

8. What kind of information can
be saved?
 Save following from the email
 E-mail address
 Date and time received
 Copies of relevant emails with full email headers
 Save following from chat room
 Date and time of chat
 Name and URL of the chat room
 Nickname of the offending person
 Email address if available
 Screenshot of chat room

9. Report Cyber bullying Email
 Report cyber bullying email to your ISPs.
 Emails can be traced easily using different
available software
 If somebody has stolen your account contact
support team of that mail site.

10. Report chat room cyber
bullying
 Highlight the chatter’s name
 Use the ignore button to stop all
conversations
 Take a screen shot of the abuse
 Note the time and date of the chat
 Report to chat room operator or service
operator
 Speak to parent or a teacher

11. Its not your fault
 You should know that it is not your fault if bad
people are there in the world
 You should not be ashamed of telling it to
adults or teachers
 People are not anonymous on the internet.
With the right information they can be easily
traced and punished by local police or
authorities.

12. Protect yourself
 Never arrange a meeting with someone you
don’t know
 If you have to, go with your parents.
 You may need to delete your current email
accounts, cell phone etc and setup a news
ones.

13. Examples of cyber-bullying
 One example of cyber-bullying was the Star Wars kid whose
classmates uploaded video footage of him posing as the Star
Wars character Darth Maul onto Kazaa in 2003. The footage was
downloaded extensively and modified causing the subject
extensive embarrassment resulting in psychiatric treatment.
 13 year old Vermont boy Ryan Halligan committed suicide, as a
result of cyber-bullying:
 "Ryan Halligan hanged himself after prolonged bullying at school
and at home through the Internet. He was repeatedly taunted
online. Due to the continued bullying, Ryan latched on to the idea
of killing himself as vengeance against those who had hurt him."
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14. Questions?

15. Thank You